Thursday, November 8, 2012

Feature and Follow: Whaddya Think of Bookish Copycats and FanFic?

It's that time again! Feature and Follow over at Parajunkee's View. This blog hop is THE BEST way to meet new people, find new blogs and of course, get new followers! If you want to learn more about this blog hop, click on the button above and it'll take you right to the hop. With each Friday Feature and Follow the hosts pose a question, and the million dollar question is....drumroll.......

Do you mind books with similar ideas to other books? Similar concepts, backgrounds, retellings or pulled-to-publish fanfic?

Similar ideas don't bother me much. For me, the biggest draw to a book, what makes me love it the most is not the plot, or the idea of the book, but the characters. I love good juicy characters I can sink my teeth into. Retellings are fine by me so long as it is quality material and inventive slants on the characters. As for fanfic, I'm not a fan. I have nothing against it conceptually, I just don't enjoy it. As y'all know, I'm a Harry Potter fanatic so a looooong time ago, I checked out a bit of fanfic. No matter how well written technically, everything I read lacked the original sparkle and pizzazz (I'm the mother of young girls, so yes, those are the sorts of adjectives I use, get over it :) of Rowling's characters.

What do you think?

Are you down with similar concepts?

What is the most important thing in a book? Idea, characters, plot, twist ending?

Sound off in the comments!

20 comments:

I adore fanfiction, but I don't really like the idea earning money by publishing it. Dunno. And yeah, there are stories where it's hard to find satisfying fanfiction, unless you really know what you're looking for.. and where to find it. ._.'

Thank you for the follow! I agree that it's the characters that really make the book. I also agree with you on the fanfiction - that's why I was so reluctant to try reading it, as I thought it would only ruin the books for me. I am slowly dipping my toes into HP fanfiction, but to me the characters in the fanfics are totally separate from the book characters. Nobody writes 'em like JK!